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This young Goff is a fine fellow. He took good care of Maddy during the whole trip. When we got back to the filling station and Goff was to go on his way, Maddy offered him the dust and he refused it. Here Welborn stepped in. He shook a little out of one sack to make 'em equal; he handed one sack to Mrs. Carter and placed the other in Goff's car. 'You keep that, he ordered.
But he could see that there was no reflection of Miss Goff's scorn in her face. "And so you really took me for a ghost," he said. "Yes. I thought at first that you were a statue." "A statue!" "You do not seem flattered by that." "It is not flattering to be taken for a lump of stone," he replied, ruefully. Lydia looked at him thoughtfully.
It is to be found in several books, notably Goff's "Life of Revere." Most of these facts are from Frothingham's "Siege," 57-59, and from Revere's letter. John Hancock never showed better in his life than on the morning of the 19th of April. Many times the Tories had tried to win him over. Hutchinson himself had written: "At present, Hancock and Adams are at variance.
I could not help grinning when I found out that they did not even allude to me as the Vice-President-elect, let alone as a hunter, but merely as "Johnny Goff's tourist." Of course during the years when I was most busy at serious work I could do no hunting, and even my riding was of a decorous kind.
Lucian, whose demeanor resembled Miss Goff's rather than his cousin's, went through the ceremony of introduction with solemnity, and was received with a dash of scorn; for Alice, though secretly awe-stricken, bore herself tyrannically towards men from habit. In reply to Alice, Mr. Webber thought the day cooler than yesterday.
"It doesn't matter," said Cashel. "I have not done harm enough to be greatly concerned; but I will not offend again. To change the subject, let us look at Miss Goff's sketch." Miss Carew had hardly uttered this suggestion, when Cashel, in a business-like manner, and without the slightest air of gallantry, expertly lifted her and placed her on her feet.
XIII. No work shall be given employees to be done at their homes. London for the cloak makers, and Mr. The New York Evening Post said: "Justice Goff's decision embodies rather strange law and certainly very poor policy.
Dave Fellows galloped down the long hills, around curves, across the bridge at the mill and up again to his home, told his family of the approach of the enemy, directed them to pack up all the easily moved furniture, harness the two mules and be ready to flee out through the forest past Goff's Mills to the next station thirty miles further down the railroad.
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